April 7th Deaths (Here)April 7 Events:529 – Corpus Juris Civilis, first draft (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.1776 – Captain John Barry & the USS Lexington captures the Edward.1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio & Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio.1795 – France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States & Spain.1805 – Lewis & Clark Expedition - Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe & afterwards journeys West along the Missouri River.1827 – English chemist John Walker sells the first friction match -he had invented the friction match the previous year.1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.1862 – Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates (American Civil War).1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish.1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts & devastates Naples.1906 – Algeciras Conference -hab France & have control over Morocco.1908 – H. H. Asquith (Liberal Party) becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.1922 – Teapot Dome scandal - United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City).1933 – Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.1939 – Italy invades Albania (World War II).1943 – Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear & march to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead & buried in ditches.1945 – Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes (World War II).1946 – Official recognition of Syria's independence from France.1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.1963 – Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic - Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.1964 – IBM announces the System/360.1969 – Publication of RFC 1 - the Internet's symbolic birth date.1971 – President Richard Nixon announces that rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam will increase.1976 – John Stonehouse (British Cabinet Minister) resigns from the Labour Party.1977 – Siegfried Buback (German Federal prosecutor) & his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members.1978 – President Jimmy Carter cancels development of the neutron bomb.1983 – Astronauts Story Musgrave & Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway.1990 – Iran Contra Affair - John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal.1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.1994 – Tutsis massacres begin in Kigali, Rwanda.2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad - the Saddam Hussein regime collapses 2 days later.2009 – Alberto Fujimori (former Peruvian President) is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings & kidnappings by security forces.

April 6th Deaths (Here)April 6 Events:46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio & Marcus Porcius Cato (aka Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.402 – Battle of Pollentia - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric.1199 – King Richard I of England dies from septicaemia following the removal of an arrow embedded in his shoulder.1320 – Signing of Declaration of Arbroath - Scots reaffirm their independence.1327 – Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz,becomes king John I of Portugal.1652 – Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch sailor, establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope that eventually becomes Cape Town.1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik.1782 – Rama I of Siam (Thailand now) founds the Chakri dynasty.1793 – French Revolution - Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic => period known as the Reign of Terror begins.1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.1812 – Duke of Wellington's British forces assault the fortress of Badajoz, aturning point in the Peninsular War.1814 – Napoleon abdicates & is exiled to Elba.1830 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. & others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.1832 – Black Hawk War begins – the Sauk warrior Black Hawk begins a war with the United States.1862 – The Battle of Shiloh begins (American Civil War).1865 – Battle of Sayler's Creek (American Civil War).1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic - composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.1869 – Celluloid is patented.1888 – Clemson Agricultural College established with estate bequeath following Thomas Green Clemson death.1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London.1896 – Opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, is celebrated 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins.1909 – Robert Peary & Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.1911 – Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro.1917 – The United States declares war on Germany (World War I).1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight.1930 – Beginning the Salt Satyagraha - Gandhi raises a lump of mud & salt & declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak.1941 – Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Yugoslavia) & Operation Marita (invasion of Greece) (World War II).1945 – Sarajevo is liberated from the German & Croatian Nazis by the Yugoslav Partisans (World War II).1947 – First Tony Awards are presented - for theatrical achievement.1957 – Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) & founds Olympic Airlines.1965 – Early Bird launched - the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.1965 – Cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project by the British Government.1972 – Easter Offensive by American forces (Vietnam War).1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV".1984 – Cameroon's Republican Guard members unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.1993 – Discovery of Chris Correll, the 4th Dalai Lama.1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins.1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake a merger between Travelers & Citicorp - forming Citibank.2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president.2009 – Earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy (6.3 magnitude).